Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visiting Infant Feeding Weight Management
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (30 hours per week)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 824-ONW-7853362
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brent Willesden and Sudbury Centre, Central London Community Health Trust
- Town
- Brent
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 per annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Infant Feeding and Weight Management Lead
Band 7
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 Infant Feeding and Weight Management Lead to join the Brent 0 – 19 Service Inner Public Health Nursing
UNICEF Baby Friendly Accreditation is highly valued in CLCH and is embedded in the CLCH Quality Strategy 2020-2025 under campaign one, ‘a positive patient experience. Success in maintaining the Silver Sustainability Award in February 2024 was announced on the Trust intranet (The Hub), the Outer North Division newsletter and the Spotlight on Quality newsletter. We are very proud of this accreditation and all the boroughs in Central London Community Healthcare Trust (CLCH) are working through the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation process.
Our commitment to career progression, leadership and research in practice is reflected in the recent appointment of our first Nurse Consultant for Public Health. Research and practice initiatives from frontline staff are encouraged and supported and we have an excellent CLCH Academy to support learning and career development, plus membership of IHV and SAPHNA for professional development.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a dynamic individual with a strong public health focus who is fully committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse school aged population in brent. You will be a highly motivated individual with an interest in proactively managing health promotion initiatives and supporting children to make healthy lifestyle changes that can become everyday habits.
The Infant feeding Lead works alongside the health visiting team which further enhances the clinical pathways to local families. The Infant Feeding and Weight Management Lead continues to support mothers and families across Brent with early support where required. This is offered in the ‘preparing for feeding’ antenatal phase or ‘postnatal period’. Support is offered to enable parents and babies to achieve optimal health outcomes and to achieve their personal feeding goals.
The infant feeding Lead provide many infant feeding clinics weekly across the borough to support local families.
The Infant Feeding and Weight Management Lead also provide a specialist breastfeeding clinic for those mothers who require additional more specialist support.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life’s most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.'
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Healthcare Professional
- Degree level qualification
- Educated to masters level in breastfeeding or children’s nutrition or equivalent combination of postgraduate diploma, training and experience
Desirable criteria
- UNICEF Breastfeeding and Early relationships building certificate
- UNICEF or voluntary organisation training certificate
- Group facilitation or teaching qualification
- Fully qualified UNICEF accredited Breastfeeding trainer
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in breastfeeding issues and promotion
- Experience of implementing and evaluating public health interventions in a community setting
- Experience of supporting members of a teams and advising/ training/ teaching other health and education professionals
- Experience in providing clinical supervision
- Experience in working across multi– professional and multi-agency partnerships
- Experience of gathering, analysing & reporting on a limited range of data and information
- Experience of conducting audits and/or research
- Experience of implementing strategy and policy
Desirable criteria
- Experience of being an Infant Feeding and Healthy Weight management champion
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative and current Government policy regarding health and infant feeding
- Good IT skills –Microsoft Word, Power point, Excel
- Highly developed communication and report writing skills, in verbal and written format
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joy Onyegbosi
- Job title
- Clinical Lead 0-19
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07950876819
- Additional information
4 working days, 9am to 5pm.
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